One word makes all the difference


Only one thing keeps them honest
The is a single difference between public services and the free market.

Competition.

Look at it there. It's the most important word that you'll read on this site today. I'm willing to bet that it's the most important word you'll read all day.

Competition.

If your local gas station overcharges you, you can choose someone else next time. If your plumber doesn't know what he's doing, there are always other choices. If your cell phone never works right, all sorts of other vendors are knocking themselves down to bring you another.

Unless it is a public service, there isn't a business around that can afford to ignore you. Because they know that you will go someplace else. With competition, the only way a company can KEEP your business is by delivering what you want.

Competition makes it possible. Competition makes it better. Competition makes it cheaper.

If you don't like it, you WILL choose someone else. Companies have to tweak, that is where their sales come from.

But if you don't like a public service, what are your choices? Where can you go?

You could go through the politics to change it. That might work. If you are lucky, that might take one term of office. That could be six years. If you are lucky.

A business can't afford to go more than a few days once it starts losing customers to the competition. The cash dries up real fast.

But that isn't true of public services.

So when government seeks to eliminate choices, they are destroying the very thing that will make things better.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - August 23, 2010 at 01:53 PM  Tag


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